Otto Virtanen and Lucas Poullain will face off in the 1st round of the Orleans Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on CENTRAL ARENA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Otto Virtanen who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Otto Virtanen is the pick to win this match.
Otto Virtanen -> 1.22
Lucas Poullain -> 3.94
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Prediction and head to head Otto Virtanen vs. Lucas Poullain
There is no head to head record between Otto Virtanen and Lucas Poullain since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Otto Virtanen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-15 | 3-7 | 3-5 | 16-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 21-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 126,he will start his run in the Orleans Challenger after he played his last match in Davis Cup, Group D, Split where he beat 7-6(5) 1-6 7-6(7) to Mcdonald in the Rubber 1 on the 16th of September.
Otto has a compiled 29-24 win-loss record in 2023, 18-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Lugano Challenger where he beat Cem Ilkel in the final 6-4 7-6(5) and the Lille Challenger where he overcame Max Purcell in the final 6-7(3) 6-4 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, The Finn has an overall 158-101 record. He has a positive 91-34 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Orleans Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Lucas Poullain
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-10 | 1-3 | 6-3 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 63-26 | 29-11 | 8-2 | 26-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-10 | 8-4 | 5-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-6 | 8-3 | 0-1 | 14-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 290 (career-high), the French player reached the 1st round after defeating Tom Paris 3-6 6-3 6-4 and Antoine Hoang 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Hoang (6-3 6-3). During the match Poullain scored 67 points vs Hoang’s 50. The French player was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Poullain fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Lucas Poullain was quite efficient on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Lucas broke Hoang 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Lucas started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Poullain’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Bressuire,M25 Faro,M25 Loule,M25 Nottingham,M25 Carnac,M25 Bakio and M25+H Ajaccio.
Lucas has an aggregate 54-19 win-loss record in 2023, 19-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Orleans Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Arthur FeryFery – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas MachacMachac – Maxime CressyCressy (7-69 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Mathias BourgueBourgue (7-67 4-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Alex MolcanMolcan (1-6 7-62 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Gabriel DialloDiallo (6-2 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca NardiNardi – Hugo GrenierGrenier (7-65 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hugo GastonGaston – Dino PrizmicPrizmic (6-4 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Jesper De JongDe Jong (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan LamasineLamasine – Remy BertolaBertola (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Hugo GastonGaston (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Lucas PoullainPoullain (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – Radu AlbotAlbot (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
